To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
