Knows Quote by Kathleen Raine

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“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

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

“We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we…

— John Piper

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

— Allen Tate

“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone…

— Charles Wright

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements might have…

— Erik Pevernagie

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the…

— Allen Tate