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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
