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

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Ella Maillart

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. Macaulay

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
Stevie Nicks

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert

God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden