Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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