Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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