Quotations
Poet

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

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

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

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

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

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