The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
