Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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