Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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