Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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 is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
