Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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