Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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