Knows Quote by Plato

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

— Plato

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

— Nikki Giovanni

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

“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 poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

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

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

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

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka