A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
