Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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