Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Note: Your personal data will be used by Simply Knowledge for the purpose of providing you with the Newsletter service, which you have specifically requested.
Your data are safe with Simply Knowledge
Login
Enter your e-mail and password to access account
New Users Register
Register to enjoy the benefits of Simply Knowledge.