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
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
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"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
