Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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