I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
