Awareness Quote by Marwa Helal

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

— Edith Sitwell

“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“Don't just see what others tell you to see”

— Debby Feo

“I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me”

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

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

— W.H. Auden

“Everything is revealed beforehand, but only to those with eyes to see.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within. there’s nowhere,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw