Quotations
Poet
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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