A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
