The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
