I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
