Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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