Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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