Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
