Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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