Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
