Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
