Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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