A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
