A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
