Quotations
Poet
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
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