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 don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
