Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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 worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
