Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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