Quotations
Poet

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

-Dejan Stojanović

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

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

-W. H. Auden "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."

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"

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

-René Char 

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

-H. L. Mencken

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"

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

-Alfred De Musset "Le Poète déchu"

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