Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
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