Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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