Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
