Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
