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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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