Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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
