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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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