The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
