At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
