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
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
