It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
