Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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