Quotations
Poet
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 utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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