A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
