Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
