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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
