Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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