Being misunderstood Quote by Pattiann Rogers

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry transforms and redeems the common, the hurtful, the humiliating.

— Susan Montez

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

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it,…

— Denise Levertov

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

— Faiz Ahmad Faiz

“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

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

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

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with…

— Alok Mishra