A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
