Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
