Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
