Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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 worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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