Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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