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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
"The Sole Survivor"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
