Imagination Quote by Philibert Joseph Roux

“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

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

— Kathleen Raine

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

— John Fuller

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the…

— John Trudell

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

— Alok Mishra

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to achieve a…

— the mag man

“Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not seen, to…

— José Rizal

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur