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

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

-Plato

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

-Dorothy L. Sayers "Busman's Honeymoon"

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-T. S. Eliot "Dante"

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

-Antoine De Saint Exupéry 

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

-W. H. Auden "The Dyer's Hand"

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

-Jean Cocteau

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

-Criss Jami

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

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