Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
