Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
