Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
