Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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