Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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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