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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
