Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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