Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
