It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
