Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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