I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
