A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
