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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
