Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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