Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
