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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
