Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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