Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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