Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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