Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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