Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
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