To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
