I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
