The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
"Decoded"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
