It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-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."
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"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
