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"
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
