Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
