Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
