A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
