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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
