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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

— Jacques Maritain

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✓Similar Perspectives

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

— Edward Hirsch

To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.

— William Jay Smith

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

— Ivan Turgenev

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

— John Drinkwater

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Allen Tate

✗Opposing Perspectives

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

— Eugenio Montale