I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
