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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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