Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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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