Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
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