Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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."
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
