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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
