Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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