Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
