Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
