Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
