Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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