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
Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
