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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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