Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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