Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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