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 poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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."
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
