Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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