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

“They are reduced to wrongdoers of the mind
Merely because: They misused parables.
(…)
They are people who have missed life, stuck in a place where life is misunderstood
Everything they have gone through —— is a mere tragedy of birth”

Duo Duo (1951) Poet

“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“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 (1867–1963) American teacher and writer

“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone… the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks”

Dan Brown book Inferno

“Being misunderstood is the measure of an artist, being understood is the measure of a man.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”

Adam Levine (1979) singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States