If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
Thomas Campbell
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
Tommy Chong
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
Pearl Cleage
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.