#true poet

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Jean Cocteau

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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

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