Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
