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
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
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
