It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
