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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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"
