I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
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
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
