Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
