Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Quotations
Poet
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."
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
