Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
