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W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.


Charles Baudelaire

Always be a poet, even in prose.


Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet.


John Cage

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.


Rene Char

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.


Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.


John Ciardi

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.


Jean Cocteau

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.


Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.


Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.


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