Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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