Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
