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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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