Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
