Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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