Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
