Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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