A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
