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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
