Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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 grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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