“The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.”

“Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.”

Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction

“God is the perfect poet.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

“God is the poet, men are only the actors.”

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer

“God thinks in the geniuses, dreams in the poets, and sleeps in the other people.”

Peter Altenberg (1859–1919) Austrian writer and poet

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus