Quotations
Poet
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
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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