A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
