Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
