Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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