Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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