Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
