I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau