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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
