Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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