Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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