Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
