Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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