Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
