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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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."
