Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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