Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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