To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-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
