Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
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."
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
