Quotations
Poet

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato

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 don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden

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