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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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."
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
