Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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."
