A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
