Quotations
Poet

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

-Plato

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

-René Char 

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

-Alfred De Musset "Le Poète déchu"

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

-W. H. Auden "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

-Plato

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

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

-Pablo Neruda

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

-Søren Kierkegaard "Fear And Trembling; Repetition"

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

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko "The Sole Survivor"

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