Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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