Misunderstood Quote by Jean Cocteau Download Open image “The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.” — Jean Cocteau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misunderstood Poet Poetry Tragedy Worst
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating. — Susan Montez Copy Share Image
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong. — David Niven Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
