Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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