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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
