I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
