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Jean Cocteau

"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."

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"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."

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Jean Cocteau
"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."

Will

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

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

Death

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Jean Cocteau
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Life

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Jean Cocteau
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."

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Jean Cocteau
"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Life

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Jean Cocteau
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

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Jean Cocteau
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

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Jean Cocteau
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

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Aberjhani

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Aberjhani

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Aberjhani

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Aberjhani

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

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Aberjhani

"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."

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Aberjhani

"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

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Aberjhani

"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

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Aberjhani

"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."

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Aberjhani

"On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."

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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

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