Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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