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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
