Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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 is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
