Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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"
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
