Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
