Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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