Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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