Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
