At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
