At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
