It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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."
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
