Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
