Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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