It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
