Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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