Poetry

• The poet is the priest of the invisible. — Wallace Stevens
• All poets are mad. — Robert Burton
• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. — T.S. Eliot
• To a poet nothing can be useless. — Samuel Johnson
• To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too. — Walt Whitman
• You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert
• If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one. — Friedrich Hebbel
• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. — Malcolm de Chazal