Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
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 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
