Personalities Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

— John Dos Passos

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he…

— Anonymous

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time. Alexander…

— Julie Anne Long

“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.”

— Marne L. Kilates

“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.”

— Felix Alexander

“The man was poetry in motion.”

— Danielle Bourdon