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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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