Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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"
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
