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
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
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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