Quotations
Poet

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

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot

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

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

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken

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

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