Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
