A poet's business is to imagine what it is impossible to know.

What a world where pimps are in power and poets in jail!

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

A poet who only knows how to be sad is no poet.

There are corrupt poets and honest politicians.

Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

Even poets must be judged by their actions and not by their words.