All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
