Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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"
