Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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