A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
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"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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"
