Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
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