Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
