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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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