Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
