Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char