Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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 poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
