Dejan stojanovic Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A poem is its own name and cover.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

— Audre Lorde

“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The condition of true naming, on the poet’s part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats