Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
