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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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