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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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