Quotations
Poet
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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 damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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