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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
