Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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