Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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 damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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