Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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