Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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