A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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."
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
