Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
