Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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