Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
