Quotations
Poet

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

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

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda

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