Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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