Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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
