Quotations
Poet
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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