To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
