Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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