Quotations
Poet
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
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