All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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 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."
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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"
