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
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"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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."
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
