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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
