Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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