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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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