Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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