Quotations
Poet

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

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

When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot

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

Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

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

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

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