Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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