Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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