The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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 shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
