Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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 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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
