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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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."
