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"
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
