I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
