A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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."
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
