A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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 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
