To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard