Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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