Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
