I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
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"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
