Quotations
Poet

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char

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