Quotations
Poet

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

-Dejan Stojanović

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

-W. H. Auden "The Dyer's Hand"

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

-W. H. Auden

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.

-Etinne Gilsun

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

-Walt Whitman

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

-Søren Kierkegaard "Fear And Trembling; Repetition"

Always be a poet, even in prose.

-Charles Baudelaire

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