Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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