Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- 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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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