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
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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 man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
