The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
