Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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