Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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