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
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
