Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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."
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
