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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
