Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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