Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
