Quotations
Poet
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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