Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
