At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
