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
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
