Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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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