A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
