Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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 grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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