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
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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