Quotations
Poet
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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