The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
