A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
