Poets Proverbs
Sayings about Poets Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village. ~ Malian Proverb A poet is born not made. ~ Traditional Proverb Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets . ~ Indian Proverb We all have something of a doctor, a poet and a fool. ~ Chilean Proverb Poets know all about famous places without having been there. ~ Japanese Proverb Quotations about Poets To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. He requires whatever it needs to be completely his own master. ~ Robert Graves The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ Edith Sitwell In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet . ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~ Jean Cocteau Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~ William Bolitho A ...