Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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