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 never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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."
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
