A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
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"
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
