Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
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"
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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."
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
