Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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