Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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