Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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