Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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