It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
