Discouragement Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's…

— W. H. Auden

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance…

— Harold Bloom

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

— Tony Dungy

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

— Paul Eluard

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

— Derek Walcott

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace