"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses." ― Jean Cocteau Topic(s): Poetry More From Jean Cocteau "The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness." "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" More In Poetry "When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."― Lynn Abbey "The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."― Robert Penn Warren "Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different."― Ian Hamilton Finlay