Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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