At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
