A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
