Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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