The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
