Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
