Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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