A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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 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."
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
