Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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