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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
