Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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