Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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