A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
