Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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