Quotations
Poet
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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
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