He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Quotations
Poet
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"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
