Dejan stojanovic Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

— Jonathan Culler

Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart