Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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