Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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