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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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