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"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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."
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
