Quotations
Poet

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

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