Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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