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
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
