I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
