At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
