Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
