Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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