Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
