A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
