Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
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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