Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
