Quotations
Poet

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

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

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