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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
