Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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