Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
