A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
