Quotations
Poet
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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