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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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