Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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."
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
