The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
