A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
