Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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