Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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