Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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