Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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