Quotations
Poet
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
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