To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
"Decoded"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
