Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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