Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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