Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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