Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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