Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
