A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
