Quotations
Poet

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

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

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

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