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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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