Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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