Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
