A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
