Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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