Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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'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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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