“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963Related quotes

“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”
More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act i. Sc. 4.

Reuters UK http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKN2861788420071129 (November 27, 2007)

English translation originally from "Subramaniya Bharathi" at Tamilnation.org, also quoted in "Colliding worlds of tradition and revolution" in The Hindu (13 December 2009) http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/colliding-worlds-of-tradition-and-revolution/article662079.ece
“A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.”

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”
Quote in Avant et Après, (1903); taken from Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, trans. (1923) Van Wyck Brooks [Dover, 1997, ISBN 0-486-29441-2], p. 2
1890s - 1910s

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