Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
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
