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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
