I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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"
