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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 17 total Jean Cocteau quotes in our collection. Jean Cocteau is known for saying 'The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.' as well as some of the following quotes.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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