Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Note: Your personal data will be used by Simply Knowledge for the purpose of providing you with the Newsletter service, which you have specifically requested.
Your data are safe with Simply Knowledge
Login
Enter your e-mail and password to access account
New Users Register
Register to enjoy the benefits of Simply Knowledge.