Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
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