It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
