Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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