Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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."
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
