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
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
