Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
