Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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