Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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 autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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