Quotations
Poet
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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