Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
