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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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