Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-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
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
