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


Jean Cocteau

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EUGENE DELACROIX You think you can be misunderstood, try being God.
NEIL SUTTON No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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RAINER MARIA RILKE It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
TERRY GROSS A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...
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LIL WAYNE What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA The most unbearable thing is being misunderstood by your loved ones.
NISHI DE SILVA Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS To be great is to be misunderstood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To be great is to be misunderstood.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
FAN BINGBING Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Retailers just have a closeness to a great mass of people that no investment banker on Wall Street w...
ERIK GORDON A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surreali...
HAROLD PINTER Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I'm so used to being misunderstood.
JAMAICA KINCAID I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is t...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
BILLY BRAGG An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
SUKARNO A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poe...
VICTOR HUGO The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.
ADAM LEVIN Well, I think the worst thing would be for us to stumble into a great war without realizing it, with...
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TEKOA MANNING Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo...
W.B. YEATS Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
Não há senão um caminho. Procure entrar ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ...
GERMANY KENT I live in fear of not being misunderstood
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ARTHUR MILLER The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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PT. SHRI RAM SHARMA AACHARYA Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
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J. R. MOEHRINGER All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet i...
STEVIE SMITH The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
YEHUDA AMICHAI All A-students passed, Jean Marie is an A-student, Therefore, Jean Marie passed.
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ANTHONY LICCIONE To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
GEORGES BATAILLE To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b...
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TYLER OAKLEY The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood
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ARTHUR C. COXE You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone
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MARK LAWRENCE If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
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ERIKA SLEZAK The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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RITA DOVE You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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JAMES LYNCH We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human hi...
BOB BROWN For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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ADAM GRANT Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.
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GERMANY KENT It would be a tragedy for the Republican party to start splitting.
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JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
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JEAN COCTEAU We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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JEAN COCTEAU When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAU An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
JEAN COCTEAU The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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JEAN COCTEAU A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAU I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul.
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JEAN COCTEAU Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
JEAN COCTEAU I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
JEAN COCTEAU I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
JEAN COCTEAU When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I...
JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
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JEAN COCTEAU The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.
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JEAN COCTEAU I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
JEAN COCTEAU We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
JEAN COCTEAU Life is a horizontal fall.
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JEAN COCTEAU Style is a simple way of saying complicated things
JEAN COCTEAU A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
JEAN COCTEAU There are poets and there are grownups.
JEAN COCTEAU Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far
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JEAN COCTEAU The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unabl...
JEAN COCTEAU The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
JEAN COCTEAU Art is not a pastime but a priesthood
JEAN COCTEAU If it has to choose who will be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas
JEAN COCTEAU Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackma...
JEAN COCTEAU Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
JEAN COCTEAU The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
JEAN COCTEAU In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
JEAN COCTEAU Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the...
JEAN COCTEAU Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie
JEAN COCTEAU The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today
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JEAN COCTEAU The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
JEAN COCTEAU Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAU Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
JEAN COCTEAU There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
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JEAN COCTEAU Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak...
JEAN COCTEAU The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
JEAN COCTEAU Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images
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JEAN COCTEAU Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself
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JEAN COCTEAU The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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JEAN COCTEAU An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
JEAN COCTEAU The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing
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JEAN COCTEAU There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
JEAN COCTEAU Sentir antes de comprender.
JEAN COCTEAU Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Living is a horizontal fall.
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JEAN COCTEAU Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
JEAN COCTEAU Die meisten Menschen leben in den Ruinen ihrer Gewohnheiten.
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JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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WYCLEF JEAN Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
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JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
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JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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JEAN GENET Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
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JEAN GENET No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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JEAN KERR We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
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JEAN KERR If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
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JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET