Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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