A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
