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
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
