Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
