Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
