Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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