Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- 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
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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