To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
