Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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