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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
