Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
