Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
