Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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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