Quotations
Poet
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
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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