I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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."
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
