Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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