Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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