Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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