Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
