It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
