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
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
