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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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