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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
