He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
