Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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