A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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"
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
