Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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