Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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