Autobiography Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own…

— John Updike

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography…

— Joseph Brodsky

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

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

— Wallace Stegner

“The poet writes the history of his own body.”

— Henry David Thoreau

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

— Robert Penn Warren

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

— Carl Sandburg

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

— Anonymous

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner