Quotations
Poet

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran

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