Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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