Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
