Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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