Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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