I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
