Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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