Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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