Quotations
Poet
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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