A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
