Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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