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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
