Poetry Quote by T.S Eliot Download Open image ““A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”” — T.S Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Writing
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?” — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.” — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important....” — Angela Suba Natarajan Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do… — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
“Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift… — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
“Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they are that… — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
