Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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