Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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