To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
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."
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
