I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
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."
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
