A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
