The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn