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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
