Quotations
Poet
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
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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