Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
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"
