Home Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that…

— Naeem Murr

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked…

— Katy Lederer

“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a…

— Nikki Giovanni

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level…

— Johan Huizinga

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

— Samantha Morton

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

— Armond White

What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it!…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“For the poems of Paul Celan do actually speak to us in an different language. They are not easily to digest like a television…

— Wolfgang Schnier