Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
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
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"
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
