A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
