I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
