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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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