Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Quotations
Poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
