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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
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 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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
