It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
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"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
