Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
