Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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