To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
