I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
