I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
