Darling Quote by Freddie Mercury

"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."

— Edith Sitwell

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The…

— Rick Riordan

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“a poet is after all, to see”

— Ann Wood

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle