At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
