Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
