Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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 man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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