Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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