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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
