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
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 is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
