Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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