Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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