To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
