The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
