I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
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"
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
