Quotations
Poet

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

-Plato

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

-George Sand

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

-Edmond De Goncourt

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-Anonymous " Movie “Dead Poet's Society"

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

-Derek Walcott

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

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"

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