Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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