Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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