Quotations
Poet
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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