Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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