Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
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