It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
