Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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
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