Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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