Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
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