Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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