Quotations
Poet
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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