Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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