Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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