Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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