Quotations
Poet

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

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot

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

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

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

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