To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
