A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
