Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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