Quotations
Poet
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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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