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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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