I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
