Quotations
Poet
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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