Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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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