Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
