Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
