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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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