Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
