A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
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"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
