Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
