Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
