Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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