To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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"
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
