Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
