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 are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
