A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman