Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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