Quotations
Poet
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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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
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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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
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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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A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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