Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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