A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
