Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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