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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
