A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
