Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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