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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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