Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
