I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
