Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
