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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
