Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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