A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
