Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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 worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
