The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
