Quotes About Poet II

Poets aren’t very useful
Because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful.
~Ogden Nash

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ~Eli Khamarov

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.~Jean Cocteau

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. ~Robert Frost

[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. ~Sigmund Freud

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~Robert Frost

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau

The poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ~E.B. White

The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ~Lionel Trilling

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie
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

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde