Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
