A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
