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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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