Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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."
