Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
