Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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 poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
