Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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