A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
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"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
