I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
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"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
