Autobiography Quote by Robert Penn Warren

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a spiritual life…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is…

— Ben Lerner

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or…

— Eyvind Johnson

“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor”

— Oscar Wilde