A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
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
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
"Decoded"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
