Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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