Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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