A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
