I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
