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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Note: Your personal data will be used by Simply Knowledge for the purpose of providing you with the Newsletter service, which you have specifically requested.
Your data are safe with Simply Knowledge
Login
Enter your e-mail and password to access account
New Users Register
Register to enjoy the benefits of Simply Knowledge.