Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
