Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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