Quotations
Poet

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato

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