Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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"
