Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
