Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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