Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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