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's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
