Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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