Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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